Western Carolina coach leaves football program after criminal charges filed

Western Carolina assistant football coach Arketa Banks is no longer with the program after he was charged with mortgage fraud conspiracy.

Banks, 31, who served as the Catamounts’ running backs coach, assistant director of camps and clinics and as the program’s community service liaison, is among 50 people charged in “Operation Wax House,” a scheme allegedly years in the making in Mecklenburg and Union counties that includes federal offenses of bank bribery conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud.

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